Oct 9, 2014

LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings GUI

LightDM GTK+ Greeter is the default Xubuntu (screenshot below) and Lubuntu LightDM greeter (login screen UI). For how to switch to it in Ubuntu (w/ Unity), etc., see THIS Ubuntu wiki article.

Default Xubuntu 14.04 LightDM GTK+ Greeter

LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings is a small GUI written in Python which lets you modify various LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings, such as the theme, font, background, window position and more, settings which otherwise can only be set by modifying the greeter configuration files.

The tool was supposed to be added by default in Xubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn but it was postponed, most probably because LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings is not yet available in the official Ubuntu repositories (though a bug for this was submitted back in March, 2014). Hopefully, it will make it in Xubuntu with the release after Utopic - 15.04.

Misc: enable/disable onscreen keyboard, set the timeout until the screen blanks.

Here are a some LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings screenshots:

Install LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings In (X,L)Ubuntu

Xubuntu and Lubuntu use LightDM GTK+ Greeter by default but of course, you can use this tool with any Ubuntu or Linux Mint flavor, if you've switched to LightDM GTK+ Greeter. To add the PPA and install the tool in (X,L)Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10, use the commands below: